From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 13 20:14: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBCAF47C9 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:14:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@d60-025.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.25]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA19159; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:14:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id UAA17522; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:14:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 20:14:17 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Richard Wackerbarth Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /usr/ports/ too big? Message-ID: <20000213201417.C17462@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000209215806.M99353@abc.123.org> <00021318141200.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> <20000213162637.B61133@tao.thought.org> <00021319283201.06543@nomad.dataplex.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00021319283201.06543@nomad.dataplex.net>; from rkw@dataplex.net on Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:51:01PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 13, 2000 at 06:51:01PM -0600, Richard Wackerbarth wrote: > On the personal side, I know a number of newcomers who have been unwilling to > give our ports system a try because they are unwilling to dedicate the > requisite space to get started. Ah... and just *how* is your suggestion going to affect that? We have already agreed that a cvsup of the /usr/ports (not the CVS ,v files) is the minimal amount of space we can get Ports down to. Using "-i" you can restrict with high granularity what to fetch. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message